lilstrats

Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
American Idiot- Green Day
London Calling- The Clash
Tropical London - Rancid (Good CDLC on this site)

Starting with punk will get that right hand going quickly, will break you into very simple solos easily and will vet you on powerchords and how to move about them quickly. 
When you're confident then move on to harder stuff, Rammstein, AC/DC, a few Metallica (Enter Sandman, Master of Puppets) and Black Sabbath (Paranoid, Iron Man) Riffs are pretty simple....(solos not so easy) But riff repeat them...
Once you have confidence try for some harder stuff, Iron Maiden solos and the like...

Not gonna lie, they look pretty cool and I could play in the dark...

Hey guys, 

I have searched the forums for this topic and haven't found anything. 

So I want to play some of the amazing metal customs that you've all worked so hard to create. However, some songs require a very low tuning (B standard) like Amon Amarth , (B drop A) like Slipknot for instance.

I would like to put some heavy gauge strings on my guitar.  I have another guitar I'm willing to do this with.

My question is, do I have to raise the action on this guitar to tune so low, even with heavy gauge strings? What gauge would you use? What advice can you give?

Thank you so much!

 

If you clean your strings regularly you don't have to change them that often, as long as you buy good quality strings (I prefer NYXL's).  

 

It's usually recommended that you clean your strings every time you use your guitar depending on how often you play, but you should at least try and clean them once a week.  They'll sound better and last longer too.

How would you recommend to clean them? Do you use a certain product? Just a soft cloth?  

I like dynamic difficulty very much for the following reasons:

- Seeing how difficult the parts of the song are in the top of the screen is nice to have

- It looks better! In a song without DD I always feel uncomfortable because of that unesthetic straight line in the top

- It's great when you want to get to know a new song withouht beeing overwhelmed by it's complexity.

- Also, lately I found myself trying to fill the gaps in the notes (due to lower DD) on my own, just by listening. When I found out that I was right, that was really cool!

 

When you really want to learn the whole of a song in the shortest possible time, of course in terms of effectivity it's best to set the difficulty to 100 % and accelarate every part on it's own until you play it perfectly.

BUT there is an important difference between effectivity and motivation.

- I feel like a lot of advanced players tend to forget what it feels like when you're a beginner. There is simply no chance you can play that song on 100 % difficulty - no way - it will just be frustrating. When you are at this stage, dynamic difficulty is super important for your motivation! When I played Rocksmith for the first time, I fired up "The Trooper" by Iron Maiden. And even though I would only play every 20th note or whatever, I felt like a superstar. It was awesome, just rocking along to the music. This feeling is extremely important for the motivation, and it's something that is unique to Rocksmith (you cannot to it with TABs)!

 

The last point is my most important one, and the reason why I think everyone should include DD in their CDLCs.

I am with you. I also consider myself a beginner and find it really helpful to have DD. The straight line at the top makes me uncomfortable.

Wow that sucks. RIP.